{"id":9800,"date":"2014-12-26T06:12:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T11:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9800"},"modified":"2014-12-26T06:12:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T11:12:26","slug":"ernest-the-purple-aardvark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/12\/26\/ernest-the-purple-aardvark\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernest, the Purple Aardvark"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nErnest, the purple aardvark<br \/>\nHad a long and hairy nose<br \/>\nAnd if you ever saw it,<br \/>\nYou would really say &#8220;Boy I bet you could eat some ants with that thing&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of the ants in Tasmania<br \/>\nUse to run away when they saw him<br \/>\nBecause if they ran to slowly,<br \/>\n[Loud slurping noise] Ernest ate them up.<\/p>\n<p>Then one foggy Christmas Eve,<br \/>\nSanta came to say,<br \/>\n&#8220;Ernest, we have a terrible infestation of termites at the North Pole,<br \/>\nCan you come eat them up while I deliver toys to good boys and girls?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then how the elves they loved him,<br \/>\nAnd they knitted him warm nose cozies<br \/>\nBecause aardvarks normally live in tropical climates<br \/>\nAnd they&#8217;re not used to the North Pole.<\/p>\n<p>Ernest, the purple aardvark,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll go down in hiiissss-toooorrrr-yyyyyyyyyy!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Improvised last night for The Pip&#8217;s entertainment, transcribed here because Kate mentioned it on social media. I blame <a href=\"http:\/\/survivingtheworld.net\/Lesson2333.html\">Dante Shepherd<\/a> for this. Also, there may have been wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest, the purple aardvark Had a long and hairy nose And if you ever saw it, You would really say &#8220;Boy I bet you could eat some ants with that thing&#8230;&#8221; All of the ants in Tasmania Use to run away when they saw him Because if they ran to slowly, [Loud slurping noise] Ernest&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/12\/26\/ernest-the-purple-aardvark\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ernest, the Purple Aardvark<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-silliness","category-the_pip","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}